Panthers fall to last place in wild sin bin-heavy clash (2025)

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North Queensland and Manly run away with crucial victories, while things go from bad to worse for the Panthers and Titans.

Penrith's fall continues

A wild night of footy comes to an end!

Penrith are now officially in last spot on the ladder after eight rounds as the Sea Eagles run away with a 26-10 victory.

'Crazy situation'

Manly win another captain's challenge, this time overturning a high tackle from Tevaga.

"This is a crazy situation," Andrew Voss said on Fox League.

Cleary puts up a bomb and Trbojevic tries to plant his foot on the line when catching it, but gets smashed in a tackle and it's ruled a dropout.

Cherry-Evans sends the dropout 70 metres and time is running out for Penrith now.

Mass confusion

McLean races towards the corner, but drops it just short of the line upon collision.

Trbojevic gets penalised initially for high contact, but Manly challenge it and the Bunker deem it's a fair challenge from the superstar fullback.

Who knows anymore!

Koula races away

Yeo gets penalised for a high shot on Trbojevic.

Manly extend their lead even further - potentially sealing the result - with a lovely set play as Koula races through a gap after a pass from Cherry-Evans.

"He is too fast for everyone there," Andrew Voss said on Fox League.

28-10 for the Sea Eagles. Great attacking display tonight.

DCE and Haumole combine

With both teams reduced to 12 players, it's Manly who take control.

Cherry-Evans puts a kick up and Olakau'atu chases through, reels it in and scores.

"Geez he's been good tonight, back to his best," Kevin Walters said on Fox League.

The visitors lead 22-10 with less than 15 minutes to go.

Another sin bin!

Another sin bin - this time for a professional foul.

Trbojevic makes a break from inside his own half and then kicks it ahead of Cherry-Evans, who is taken off the ball by Alamoti in the chase.

Bunker rules out penalty try, but the Panthers winger is sent for 10 minutes.

"I have no doubts about this sin binning at all," Andrew Voss said on Fox League.

Crazy night of footy unfolding!

Another sin bin

Here we go again!

Taukeiaho is binned for a tackle in the previous set on Papali'i.

"How far back are we going for these incidents?" Kevin Walters asked on Fox League.

Poor discipline hurts Manly

Tempers starting to flare now as Waddell is penalised for a shoulder charge on Martin.

Just moments later, Taukeiaho is penalised and placed on report for a high tackle.

"The discipline has gone out the door here," Andrew Voss said on Fox League.

Penrith looked to have taken advantage of the field position as Sommerton forces his way over from dummy-half and gets the ball on the line.

However, the Bunker chimes in and says the Penrith hooker never got it down.

Manly hang on - barely - as Talagi fails to capitalise on a messy last play.

Manly's lead slipping

Penrith are starting to surge now.

Alamoti gets a nice offload back inside to Tago before being bundled into touch and the strike centre does the rest.

Cleary absolutely nails the sideline conversion and Manly's lead is reduced to four.